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Surname list From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cheon, also spelled Chon, is an uncommon Korean surname. It is written with either of two hanja:
Cheon | |
Hangul | 천 |
---|---|
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Cheon |
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'ŏn |
In a study by the National Institute of Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports, it was found that 50% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Cheon in their passports, while 42% spelled it Chun, and 3.5% spelled it Chon. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 4.5%) included Choun and the Yale romanization Chen.[2]
People with this surname include:
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